Shipping-crate.



4PA'ITENTED MAY 15, 1906.

P. VAN PAT'I'EN. SHIPPING CRATE. APPLIGATION ILBD Emmi, 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent. l

Patented May 15, 1906.

' Application filed February 27, 1905. Serial No. 247,423.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that LFRANK VAN PATTEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Davenport, in the countybf Scott, in the State of lowa, have invented a certain new and useful Shi ping-Crate, ol which the following is as eci' cation. i

Phe objects of Amy invention are to provide a shipping-crate for use in shipping sheet-tin` ci simple, durable, andV inexpensive construction and which is so constructed that it can be made of comparatively llight material and will maintain the sheetftin in compact form, prevent iti-from being damaged in shipment, and vwill alseprevent it fromzbeing bent while shipping it from one place to another.

'f A urtherpb' ect is to provide a crate which does not comp etely cover the tin which is to bev shipped, and thus save material in making thecrate, but which will at the same time accomplish the result of providing a crate which will enable theV person handling the `eratefto do so with comparative ease.

As shown in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a detail view of the stri used as a part of my crate, showing the strip as it appears before being applied to the niass of tin which is to be shipped.- Fig. 2 is a perspec-y tive view or my shipping-crate incasing ya mass offsheet-tin as it appears when in readiness for shipping. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view cut on the line 3 3 of Fig.` 2. F ig. 4 is a detail sectionalview showing the corner porv-tionotthe device formed by the ends of the stri shown in Fig.'1 after they are joined toget er'informing the completed crate. Fig.

5 is a sectional view of the crate cut on a line' -55ofFig.2.,

. Referring to the accompanying drawings,-

and particularly-to Fig. 1,l it will be seen that ll have provided a crating-strip composed of the two side portions 10 and 12 and the two end portions-11 and 13 ,which are jointed together, vas shown Vin Fig. 1L The end portion 10 has a tongue 111 at its free end to be folded i around the tongue 15 when thestrip is placed upon the mass of tin to be shipped, as shown in Fig. -2'of the drawings. Each edge of the `strip is provided with a series of "t/-shaped notches 16, which divide the end and side sectionsllrom each other. The sidev 10 has the ilanges 17 and 18, .the end 11, the flanges I9 and 20, the side 12, the ilanges 21 and 22,

l and the end 13, the flanges 23 and 24, which vwhen placed on the-mass of tin in readiness the sides and end portions to provide a cor 6o ner in whichthe outer edges of the metal to be incased are designed to rest, and also are adapted for being securedin position relative A.to each other.

Near the edges ol each of the flanges 17 65 and 18 of the side 10 and near the edges oi each of the flanges 21- and 22 of the sidc 12 I have provided two slots 25. In each ol the flanges 19 and 20 of the end 11 and in each of the Hannes 23A and 24 of the end 13 I have 7o provided aslot 26, so that when the strip is ent into. the position shown in Fig.- 2 the inetallic straps 27 can be hooked into the slots 25`in theilangcs-21 and 17, and thus these ianges and sides, of which they are a portion, 7 5

will be held rigidly in position relative to each other, and any danger of bulging of the sides or oiseparation 'or them will be obviatenl.` There are alsotwo metallic stra' s 27, connecting the flanges V18 and 22 of t 1e sides 10 8o and 12, respectively, to hold these in position relative to each other.

Hooked into slot 26 of the flanges 19, which is integral with the side 11, and into the slot 26 in the flange 23, which is integral with the 8 5 end 13, is a metallicstrap 28,.designed to hold these flanges and the end portions in position relative to each other when the crate is in the position shown in Fig. 2 of thc draw- The flanges 2() and y2K1 are also con- 9o nected by a metallic 'strap 28 in a similar way ings to the wayin which the flanges' at the other edge of the end portions are connected and havingthe same purpose. Near each end of each ofthe flanges l have provided a slot 29,

through which metallic straps 30 are de-` V signed Vto pass to hold the initered ends of Jeach pair or these flanges together, as shown clearly inFig. 2 of the drawings. By the use or" these small metallic straps 30 the corners :oc

of the crating strip which are formed by bending the sides and end portions in position relative to each other are held in position and are securely braced.

The crate is made complete by folding the tongues 14 and 15 into each other, as shown clearly 1n Fig. fl of the drawings. ln other words, the tongues 14 and 15 of the cratingstrip are interlocked, which mode or connection is advantageous, since it is. thoroughly 11o les capable of resisting endise thrust of the sheets of tin and prever ing casual epening of the strip. l

By constructing my crate in the rnanner above described it will beseen that l have provided one in which there is no danger or racking, owing to the secure way in which the parts of the crate are braced relative to each other.l ln practical use the nietallic strip is folded around the sheet-tin to be shipped, and the straps 23 are then placed in position, andthe straps 227 are also placed in position in the manner above indicated and the corners oi the crate are braced by connecting the adjacent ends of the flanges or" the sides and parts with the metallic straps 20. These straps, however, are placed in position after the tongues lil and l5 have been secured in position relative to each other. lNhen the metallic strap aas-been placed in osition around the tin to lo incased andthe ends of the strap have been secured together and the straps have been placed in position to hold the parts o'l the rnetallic strap in position relative to each other, a pressure is applied to the top of the crate and metal to crowdV he entire rnass into the smallest possin bre space to compress the st 4tire parts oi the strips in position relative to fo and to seal l clairn, and desire to secure by Letters ljatent of the United States therefor, is-

A shipping-crate comprising a sheet-metal strip having side and end portions adapted to receive superposed sheets of tin between thern and also having inwardly-extending langes cn said portions arranged to rest above and below the sheets of tin and further having its ends folded into each other or interlocked, wherebgT it is adapted to resist edgetvise thrust of the sheets or tin in cornloination with metallic straps connecting the meeting ends of the tianges on the strip, at opposite 'sides of the crate, and metallic straps connecting opposite anges of the strip, at opposite sides of the crate.

lJl/itnesses' S. CHRISTY, A. G. linens. 

